Dish Network to carry MSNBC HD…
The Denver Business Journal reports that Dish Network will be carrying MSNBC in HD…
Dish Network Corp. said Thursday it was adding MSNBC HD to its channel lineup and would be the nation’s only pay-TV service to carry MSNBC’s high-definition channel across the country.
MSNBC HD is offered on the Dish Network’s Channel 209 in its Classic Silver 200 with HD package and above.
I saw this story via J$ which labeled it as an “exclusive”. The Journal’s headline calls the deal an “exclusive”. But what’s interesting is that the story itself doesn’t use the term “exclusive”. Exclusivity in this case should mean Dish has the only rights to air MSNBC HD nationwide and nobody else can. I have a feeling that’s not an accurate statement and that this is only “exclusive” because nobody else (read: DirecTV) has started carrying MSNBC in HD yet. If that’s the case, the Dish announcement will likely force DirecTV to start carrying it sooner than planned.
Update: It’s not an exclusive deal and the Journal was doing a bit of embellishing with that headline. Dish was just the first national carrier to air MSNBC in HD.
Update 2: After being shown the original Dish release, it’s readily apparent that the Biz Journal was not the source for the “Exclusive” characterization. It was Dish itself.
July 9, 2009 at 9:53 am
Will they ever get their graphics package figured out? The anchors’ heads are bouncing off that stupid white bar, the lower crawl is half buried below the screen on my non-HD TVs, and the lower third chyron looks like a racing stripe across the anchors’ stomachs in Primetime because they drop the crawl but don’t replace it with anything. The whole thing is a disaster.
July 9, 2009 at 10:05 am
It’s graphic overkill to be sure. But these things take time to change. I’ve already seen a few minor tweaks already. But those lower thirds are a real problem. They take up too much vertical space, particularly since there’s a white bar on the top. And I could do without the stock market update. If I want a market update, I’ll tune to CNBC or FBN.
July 9, 2009 at 10:28 am
I think TWC in NYC will have MSNBC on July 29th
July 9, 2009 at 1:51 pm
While I know I can receive satellite service pretty much [b]nationwide[/b], I know of may places where you can’t get cable service from anyone.
Don’t blame J$ or DBJ, blame Dish Network for their misleading press release or even Sheinhardt Wigs if they approved it.
July 9, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I haven’t seen the actual release? Have you? So we don’t know that it used the word “exclusive” in it. We do know the DBJ put the term in its headline however…
July 9, 2009 at 10:36 pm
http://dish.client.shareholder.com/releases.cfm
Just click on the July 9 release.